A First Book of Jurisprudence For Students of the Common Law, 4th ed.
Pollock, Sir Frederick [1845-1937]. A First Book of Jurisprudence: For Students of the Common Law. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1918. Fourth edition. xviii, 373 pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt stamped spine. Light wear. Ex-library, with white location label to tail of spine, bookplate to front pastedown, some pencil underlining and annotations. Good. $85. * Fourth edition. Pollock was one of the greatest British judges and legal scholars of his day. His treatises on contracts, jurisprudence the common law and other subjects did much to clarify and systematize English law. Several of these were standard texts that went through several editions. He is also remembered for his collaboration with F.W. Maitland on The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I and his correspondence with Oliver Wendell Holmes, which was published posthumously as The Holmes-Pollock Letters. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 2:284.
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